Drugs: Misuse
Health
Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009
Norman Lamb (North Norfolk, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use were recorded in England in each of the last five years.
Phil Hope (Minister of State (the East Midlands), Regional Affairs; Corby, Labour)
The information is shown in the following table:
| Activity in English national health service hospitals and English national health service commissioned activity in the independent sector, data years 2004-05 to 2008-09 | |
| Finished admission episodes | |
| 2004-05 | 44,367 |
| 2005-06 | 47,854 |
| 2006-07 | 47,886 |
| 2007-08 | 48,583 |
| 2008-09 | 48,970 |
| Note: These figures include admissions for alcohol-induced mental health conditions. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care. | |